Rejection Reasons for HIV Viral Load and Early Infant Diagnosis Tests in Cameroon, 2024

12,748 HIV viral load and 1,039 Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) samples were rejected in Cameroon during a 2024 study. This dataset likely contains monthly records of rejected samples, reasons for rejection, and test types from 17 national reference laboratories. The data was collected by Marie Atsama-Amougou and published on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of pre-analytical error types based on the rejection reasons mentioned in the description.
• Model factors associated with sample rejection based on test type and laboratory network data.
• Benchmark laboratory performance against the national target rejection rate of <2%.
• Identify priority areas for intervention, such as specimen identification or transport packaging errors.

Strengths

• Includes data from 17 national reference laboratories, providing a network-level view.
• Covers a substantial volume of samples: 326,885 HIV viral load and 38,354 EID specimens received.
• Quantifies specific error rates, such as 63.14% of viral load rejections due to identification errors.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The 9.2 KB file size suggests a very limited scope, likely summary statistics rather than detailed records.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Marie Atsama-Amougou.

Collection Method

Descriptive and quantitative study collecting nonconformity data from 17 HIV reference laboratories.

Time Range

Data collected from 11/01/2024 to 08/12/2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-27 18:00:33; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Cameroon.